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• And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

  Katherine Center

  Boys, Two, Care

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• We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get strippers. All I'm saying is, when boys are writing the stories, the percentage of strippers is bound to go up. And real stories about real women kinda don't get written at all.

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  Real, Writing, Boys

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• All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.

  Katherine Center

  Coffee, Character, Things In Life

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• It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

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  Thinking, Matter, Easy

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• There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.

  Katherine Center

  Girl, Sweet, Mean

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• It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.

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  Wanted

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• Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

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  Sight, Hopeful, Feelings

  Katherine Center (2007). “The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

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  Fall, Together, Way

  Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

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  Impact, World, Objects

  Katherine Center (2010). “Get Lucky: A Novel”, p.173, Ballantine Books

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• Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

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  Memories, Kindness, Past

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• That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

  Katherine Center

  Mom, Children, Giving Up

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• Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

  Katherine Center

  Reading, Writing, Novel

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• Look for beauty in everything.

  Katherine Center

  Looks

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• I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

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  Honesty, Real, Writing

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true.

  Katherine Center

  Mother, Believe, Littles

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• It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

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  Interesting, Important, Vivid

  Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.233, Ballantine Books

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